iOS rich notifications integration

Starting with iOS 10, you can attach a static or animated image or even a video to push notifications. It will be displayed right in the notification when the user force-taps it.

Enabling this functionality is very simple, with very little coding involved. Let’s do it!

First create a Notification Service Extension. This extension downloads the content that will be shown to the user.

Add new target to your project (File -> New -> Target) and create Notification Service Extension.

The code downloads the attachment and calls the notification content handler.
Just Copy & Paste it to your extension.

import UserNotifications
import PushwooshFramework

class NotificationService: UNNotificationServiceExtension {

    var contentHandler: ((UNNotificationContent) -> Void)?
    var bestAttemptContent: UNMutableNotificationContent?

    override func didReceive(_ request: UNNotificationRequest, withContentHandler contentHandler: @escaping (UNNotificationContent) -> Void) {
        PWNotificationExtensionManager.shared().handle(request, contentHandler: contentHandler)
    }
}

#import "PWNotificationExtensionManager.h"

@interface NotificationService : UNNotificationServiceExtension

@end

@implementation NotificationService

- (void)didReceiveNotificationRequest:(UNNotificationRequest *)request withContentHandler:(void (^)(UNNotificationContent * _Nonnull))contentHandler {
    [[PWNotificationExtensionManager sharedManager] handleNotificationRequest:request contentHandler:contentHandler];
}

@end

Notification Service Extension is a separate binary and has its own Info.plist file.
Add App Transport Security Settings with Allow Arbitrary Loads flag set to true to extension’s Info.plist file.

Info.plist:

<key>NSAppTransportSecurity</key>
<dict>
  <key>NSAllowsArbitraryLoads</key>
  <true/>
</dict>

In order to send a rich notification just specify the file’s URL in the BANNER URL field

Woosh! Force-tap the notification and you are all done!

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